HEat Index, Issue 41 – Demographic Cliff Update, Ethics and AI, and a CDO Conversation
A new report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) offers a more nuanced perspective on enrollment as we approach the demographic cliff, which, in reality, feels more like a slow, steady decline. In this week’s issue, we’ll take a deeper...
HEat Index, Issue 40 – College Completion, Student Privacy, and EdTech Conferences
Welcome back! We hope everyone had a wonderful and rejuvenating Thanksgiving break with family and friends and feel recharged to wrap up the fall semester strong. In this week’s issue, we celebrate the positive momentum behind rising six-year completion rates, now at...
HEat Index, Issue 39 – Change Management, International Enrollment, and the Potential New Education Secretary
Change is hard. Anyone who works in higher education knows just how true that statement is, especially when the process requires collaboration and agreement across multiple campus stakeholders. In this week’s issue, we explore strategies for managing change fatigue...
HEat Index, Issue 38 – FAFSA Enrollment Impacts, Skills Over Degrees, and Experiential Learning Programs
While the Department of Education is working to ensure that this year’s FAFSA runs smoothly, we examine the impacts that last year’s challenges had on fall enrollments in this week’s issue. (Spoiler alert: institutions struggled to fill their first-year classes.)...